Yeah, I was interviewed by Rory Stewart, with Alistair Campbell. Before the interview, I read his longish op-ed about his experience in government and why he ultimately decided to step out. I think bandwidth saturation, although he did not use that term, was the main theme of that op-ed. So yeah, anything to reduce the cognitive burden, I think, by definition is good. Whereas Obama, when he was first president, recruited a team of human ‘small language models’—staff—to sort through all the letters to the president, choosing like five representative samples, like a medley, for him to read every day. You can easily think of sense-making tools as not just making this process zero friction, but also making writing back not just to those five lucky ones, but rather to literally everyone.

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